21 Coworker Memes for Understaffed Teams of Employees With One Foot Out the Door

It seems like there are barely any workplaces with adequately staffed teams of employees at this point. Everyone is wondering, 'Huh, why don't we have more workers?' when the answer is simple: People don't get paid enough to deal with rowdy, delinquent customers. Bank accounts all over are sitting on the same number, or recede slowly into negative zeros. People want to be compensated properly, but that obviously ain't happening in this economy. 

It can be jarring to deal with such negativity on a daily basis. There is one thing that makes it better (or worse) though, aside from memes — your coworkers. Maybe not all of 'em (we see you Karen). Sure, there is that one person who never seems to shut up about how critical their input is to the team (again, hi Karen) yet is never, ironically, seen working.

Scroll down for some of the best, most relatable memes of the week. For more, you can check out last week's.

'If it wasn't for me there would be no wedding': Entitled monster-in-law demands to join her son on his honeymoon

There's nothing more exhausting than a demanding mother-in-law. As soon as this couple got engaged, this Redditor's mother-in-law immediately insisted upon joining the couple on their upcoming honeymoon to Greece. You would think at first that this woman was joking, right? Nope! She wasn't joking in the slightest.

 

The Redditor shared her side of the story via this thread on Reddit's r/entitledparents subreddit, a perfect home for a post about a mother-in-law like this one. As many of the folks suggested in the comments section, we believe this woman should avoid any and all discussions about the honeymoon as much as possible from here on out. If the topic of travel comes up, she can be subtle about it. "When you have your own trip one day, you can go visit x, y, and z…" That sort of thing. If she doesn't get the picture, too bad! As long as the Redditor doesn't give any concrete details about where she and her husband are staying, she should be good to go.

 

Keep scrolling below for the full story. For more, check out this post about a guy who dumped his girlfriend over her KPOP obsession. 

‘We Worked Together for Five Years, but I Haven’t Seen Her Work Once’ : HR Calls Old Coworker of Interviewee for Job Reference, He Throws Her Under Bus, Enacting the Petty Revenge She Always Deserved

Some people's claim to fame end when they get promoted, and from then on they simply sit at their desk, playing Candy crush on their phone, overlooking a bunch of other employees, not doing any more actual work. Either they aren't very self-aware when they expect to get glowing references from former coworkers, or they're downright delusional. Either way, if you're not gonna work, don't expect the people you effed over to vouch for you when you begin looking for another job.

This is the case here — a woman who was part of a programming team in a company did some work on a suite of software tools that (everyone in the company was then forced to use) got promoted, and decided that her work was done. After that, she sat on her throne (office chair), and read paperback novels all day. Maybe she felt she was entitled to her 'break', but the fact of the matter was, she wasn't actually doing any work from then on.

The company eventually came crashing down, and many years later, an old coworker of hers received a comical phone call — apparently, this lady had listed him as a job reference. He found this to be the perfect opportunity to get her back and enacted some petty revenge. Scroll down to read the detailed account below.

You're also welcome to click here for some good old malicious compliance, involving a boss, an employee, and the dreaded attendance system.

'Security was called': Nepo baby gets fired from resort where her parents are members, parents go full-Karen and entire family gets banned for life

It turns out nepo babies even have it easier when it comes to getting that first crappy job that we all have to go through, but that doesn't mean you're actually going to be successful in the role. 

These "first jobs" usually consist of a workplace environment where "doing what you're told" is pretty much your only required skill. So not doing what you're told—because you're an entitled little turd of a human being—generally won't get you very far. That is unless your family has enough money and enough power that they're afraid to fire you. Unfortunately, for this nepo baby, that wasn't quite the case.

Mommy and Daddy, like a lot of rich and powerful people, have been consistently taught that "applying pressure" on service people by screaming and yelling at them will always get them the result they want. When this stops working, they keep screaming and yelling—until the authorities are involved and until they're banned for life.

This family should be proud; they even got pictures of their esteemed family hung up in the resort for all to see—just at the security guard's station instead of in the donor's lounge. 

Keep reading for this deliciously satisfying tale below. For more, check out this nepo baby boss who attempted to force their workers to work on PTO.

'He's put her in an impossible position': Dude offers home for his BFF's wedding, until her fiancé makes an uncomfortable request

"One of my best friends is getting married soon," this guy wrote, as he wondered if he was wrong for restricting where she could hold the festivities. The OP, u/weddingproperty, had a burning AITA? question for the internet. 

As he shared, he's excited for his best friend Carla to get married to her fiancé Rick. He even offered to let them hold the wedding on his property. However, he recently learned that no one told Rick about he and Carla's romantic history. Once Rick found out,  he didn't respond well. And in fact, he's now trying to get the OP off his own property! The OP is unsure what to do, since this situation pits him against his best friend. Commenters assured the OP that he's NTA. 

Up next, check out this one person who shared their job's insane policy for being "on call" literally all of the time.